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Self-Portrait at Nine Years Old
- Pigmented linen pulp on paper
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12 x 12 in
(30.48 x 30.48 cm)
- Glenn Ligon
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Sold
- Edition. AP2/5
Gift of the artist
Estimate $8,000 - $10,000
Glenn Ligon’s conceptual artwork explores race, gender, and identity. His artworks often examine cultural and social identities through photographs, historical texts, popular figures, and so on. Self-Portrait at Nine Years Old is part of a series in which Ligon used images of his childhood music idols to represent himself as a child. This paper-pulp print depicts James Brown created through black dots on a baby blue background. In an interview with David Drogin, Ligon said, “It’s not simply about a kind of identity formation in the sense of ‘these are people I want to emulate.’ It was more about, ‘these are the people who are speaking to me at the moment.’”
- Created: c. 2008
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Glenn Ligon was born in 1960 in The Bronx. Ligon has had numerous solo exhibitions , including The Brooklyn Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Des Moines Art center, MIT List Visual Art Center, The Hirshhorn Museum, and The Whitney Museum of American Art. Ligon has been included in over 100 group exhibitions, including the 1997 Venice Biennale and the 1993 and 1991 Whitney Biennials. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Walker Art Center. A survey of Ligon’s career is currently on exhibit at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.